Senior Frontend Engineer

Joinhorizon; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 157,000 - 218,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision coverage

Learning and development allowance

Competitive compensation

Advancement opportunities

Flexible PTO

Wellness stipend

Relocation stipend

Job summary

Checkr is seeking a Senior Frontend Engineer for Growth to advance our self-serve business and growth funnel, delivering new customer experiences from design to release. You will partner with Product to shape roadmap, mentor engineers, and ensure reliability while balancing speed to market with long-term growth.

You will work in a collaborative, fast-paced environment with on-call duties and a focus on experimentation, data-informed decisions, and customer-first solutions.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional experience building web applications.
• Strong React skills — deep understanding of hooks, context, component patterns, and performance optimization.
• TypeScript proficiency in a production environment.
• Experience running A/B experiments and using data to inform product decisions.
• Ability to write clean, maintainable, well-tested code.
• Excellent collaboration skills — comfortable working directly with Product Managers and Designers.
• Strong communication skills — can articulate technical tradeoffs to non-technical stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Develop new customer experience capabilities and product offerings from design through release.
• Find the balance between speed to market and long-term growth by designing for the horizon and building for today.
• Bring an iterative mindset to experiment, learn, and iterate to provide the best experience for the customers.
• Partner with Product to define appropriately sized initiatives to construct a roadmap that meets business needs quarter over quarter.
• Preserve customer goodwill by ensuring system availability by participating in on-call rotation, addressing support tickets, and taking action on preventative measures to improve reliability.
• Provide mentorship to engineers on the team and across the organization.
• Play an active role in the continuous improvement of the engineering organization through lunch table discussions, team showcases, and reviews with senior leadership.

Skills

Collaboration

Communication

Mentorship

Problem solving

Tools

React

TypeScript

A/B testing platforms

Redux

React Query

Context API

CSS-in-JS

Job description

About Checkr
Checkr is building the data platform to power safe and fair decisions. Established in 2014, Checkr’s innovative technology and robust data platform help customers assess risk and ensure safety and compliance to build trusted workplaces and communities. Checkr has over 100,000 customers including DoorDash, Coinbase, Lyft, Instacart, and Airtable.
We’re a team that thrives on solving complex problems with innovative solutions that advance our mission. Checkr is recognized on Forbes Cloud 100 2025 List and is a Y Combinator 2024 Breakthrough Company .

About the Role

As a Senior Frontend Engineer for Growth at Checkr, you will play a crucial role in advancing Checkr’s self-serve business, delivering products and capabilities for Checkr’s growth funnel: Acquisition, Activation, Expansion & Retention. Leveraging your deep experience, you will build, innovate, and inspire the team to bring a customer-first mindset to the self-serve experience and make it delightful for customers.

What you’ll do:

• Develop new customer experience capabilities and product offerings from design through release
• Find the balance between speed to market and long-term growth by designing for the horizon and building for today
• Bring an iterative mindset to experiment, learn, and iterate to provide the best experience for the customers
• Partner with Product to define appropriately sized initiatives to construct a roadmap that meets business needs quarter over quarter
• Preserve customer goodwill by ensuring system availability by participating in on-call rotation, addressing support tickets, and taking action on preventative measures to improve reliability
• Provide mentorship to engineers on the team and across the organization
• Play an active role in the continuous improvement of the engineering organization through lunch table discussions, team showcases, and reviews with senior leadership

What you bring:

• 5+ years of professional experience building web applications
• Strong React skills — deep understanding of hooks, context, component patterns, and performance optimization
• TypeScript proficiency in a production environment
• Experience running A/B experiments and using data to inform product decisions
• Ability to write clean, maintainable, well-tested code
• Excellent collaboration skills — comfortable working directly with Product Managers and Designers
• Strong communication skills — can articulate technical tradeoffs to non-technical stakeholders

Nice to Have:

• Experience with experimentation platforms (Amplitude, Optimizely, LaunchDarkly, Split)
• Experience with state management patterns (Redux, React Query, Context)
• Familiarity with CSS-in-JS (Styled Components)
• Experience with feature flag systems
• E2E testing experience (Cypress)

What you’ll get:

• A fast-paced and collaborative environment
• Learning and development allowance
• Competitive compensation and opportunity for advancement
• 100% medical, dental, and vision coverage
• Up to $25K reimbursement for fertility, adoption, and parental planning services
• Flexible PTO policy
• Monthly wellness stipend

Pay Transparency Disclosure

One of Checkr’s core values is Transparency. To live by that value, we’ve made the decision to disclose salary ranges in all of our job postings. We use geographic cost of labor as an input to develop ranges for our roles and as such, each location where we hire may have a different range. If this role is remote, we have listed the top to the bottom of the possible range, but we will specify the target range for an exact location when you are selected for a recruiting discussion. For more information on our compensation philosophy, see our website .

On-target Earnings OR Base Salary range (San Francisco, CA)

$185,000 – $218,000 USD

On-target Earnings OR Base Salary range (Denver, CO)

$157,000 – $185,000 USD

At Checkr, we believe a hybrid work environment strengthens collaboration, drives innovation, and encourages connection. Our hub locations are Denver, CO, San Francisco, CA, Nashville, TN, and Santiago, Chile. Individuals are expected to work from the office 3 days a week. In-office perks are provided, such as lunch five times a week, a commuter stipend, and an abundance of snacks and beverages. A relocation stipend may be available for those willing to relocate to a Checkr hub location.

Equal Employment Opportunities at Checkr
Checkr is committed to building the best product and company, which requires hiring talented and qualified individuals with a diverse set of perspectives and lived experiences. Checkr believes in hiring people of all backgrounds, including those whose histories are impacted by the justice system in accordance with local, state, and/or federal laws, including the San Francisco’s Fair Chance Ordinance .

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